Re: gnome-session: custom per-app icon

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 12:59, Sergey V. Oudaltsov wrote:
> > The foot/question mark brings no very useful information in addition to
> > the splash dialog caption.
> There is useful information. The fact that session is loading - the
> computer did not hang or anything. The progress itself is a very useful
> information.

It is indeed very useful information, but it could just as well be shown
with an indeterminate progress bar and some text underneath saying
"Starting <app/service name>".  No icons to worry about at all, then :)

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/feedback.html#indeterminate-progress

Cheeri,
Calum.

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